Bible Verses About Serpents: Often sent as a punishment

The LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people. Many people of Israel died.

They shall be wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat and bitter destruction. I will send the teeth of animals on them, with the venom of vipers that glide in the dust.

Neither let us test the Lord, as some of them tested, and perished by the serpents.